Uncasville's Forth Shantok revisited: site of Mohegan Indian fort recalled

Carol W. Kimball

Fort Shantok
Uncas
Adrian Block's map
Pequots
Mohegans
Narragansetts
Leffingwell Monument

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Scrapbook

8: Communication Artifact

Documentary Artifact

The Day

New London, CT

07/18/1991

Carol W. Kimball

Uncasville's Fort Shantok, site of a Mohegan Indian Fort and seat of their sachem Uncas, now provides people a well-kept historic state park. Adrian Block's map, published in 1614, shows that the Mohegans existed separately at that early date, although they were later subjected by the Pequots. Uncas retreated to Fort Shantok until the English under John Mason began their war against the Pequots in 1637. In 1645 Uncas and his warriors at Shantok were beseiged by their enemies, the Narragansetts. The seige was lifted by the bravery of Thomas Leffingwell who fed Uncas and his garrison. The memorial of his bravery was removed to the Mohegan Cemetery in 1923.

Uncas
Block, Adrain
Mason, John
Chief Occum Fielding
Brewster, Jonathan
Oldham, Lucretia
Brewster, Lucretia
Leffingwell, Thomas

Fort Shantok
Uncasville
Mohegan Indian Fort
Pequot Plantation
Pequots
Mohegans
war
English
Poccatuck path
Trading Cove
Brewster's Neck
monument
memorial
Mohegan Cemetery
Leffingwell monument
Colonial Dames